It is extremely difficult to write a letter of condolences to a friend one doesn't know personally. Please allow me to consider you a personal friend, because after all the help you have given me and to everyone else on the FML, I can only think of you as such. The phrase "chip off the old block" comes to mind. The block from which this chip was hacked must have been from a very special tree. I am truly sorry to hear of your father's death. Please extend my condolences to all of your family. Mike Smith [Posted in FML issue 1123]